Sylvia vs. Shamrock is mind-blowing. Overall, I'm pretty interested in Sylvia's career getting a reboot in Japan, I think he'd do well choke slamming Minowa.

Heal Hook Heaven!

Minowa will cream Sylvia. Tim is about as mobile as Giant Silva and his stand up will be pointless against a sub machine like Minowa.

I am on the bandwagon.

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This news release from Sherdog has sooo much rubbish in it. I have highlighted it.

After losing to Fedor Emelianenko last July, Tim Sylvia plans for a big return.

The former UFC heavyweight champion is prepared to fight in Japan in roughly 30 days. Sylvia’s manager, Monte Cox, is actively seeking a fight for “The Maine-iac” on K-1 and Dream’s co-promoted “Premium 2008 Dynamite” card on Dec. 31 or World Victory Road’s Sengoku event on Jan. 4. Cox said Sylvia has been granted a certificate of eligibility to participate in either promotion.
“I don’t think anyone ever knows until about a week before they fight,” said Sylvia of preparing for an opponent in one of the Japanese organizations.

Sylvia (24-5) hoped to return to Affliction in January, but Cox confirmed that the 6-foot-8 heavyweight will sit out the novice promotion’s second show set for Jan. 24 in Anaheim, Calif., which features an Emelianenko-Andrei Arlovski clash.

Sylvia, who also has a contract with Cox’s Adrenaline MMA promotion, has been eyeing a meeting with UFC Hall of Famer Ken Shamrock (26-13-2).

“I was supposed to fight Ken Shamrock December 20, but it’s been postponed to February now,” said Sylvia. “He’s a free agent. I was supposed to fight him in a small show called XP3 Promotions. I believe in Texas, but it’s postponed to February now.”

Cox echoed Sylvia’s position that a bout with the 44-year-old Shamrock was in the works.

However, Melissa Ingram, director of media relations for Ken Shamrock Entertainment Inc., was hesitant to describe the fight as being in “preliminary negotiations.”

Shamrock’s manager Rod Donohoo told Sherdog.com on Monday that the bout was not under consideration.

“Our organization was approached some time ago about the prospect of Ken fighting Sylvia, but it was rejected,” Donohoo wrote in an email.

Donohoo did not disclose the reason the fight was declined. XP3 Promotions told Sherdog.com via email that it has written confirmation from both parties that they are currently in negotiations for the bout. XP3 plans to hold the event on Feb. 7 at the Reliant Arena in Houston.

Despite the opposing sides, Sylvia expects to see much action in the coming months, including a fight with Shamrock.

“I love to fight and a fight’s a fight,” said Sylvia. “He’s a Hall of Famer. He’s a legend. To progress your career you always have to fight somebody like that.

“I don’t know if he’s a stepping stone or anything, but he’s been on some of the same cards I’ve been on and he’s been highlighted over me, so I want to let people that I am better than this guy and there’s no reason he should have been highlighted over me.”

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"Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo

"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware." - Henry Miller (reps to Tauv)
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. - Mark Twain

watching Strikeforce: Payback and damn....Caudillo and Evangelista are pretty much identical. It's like twins fighting in the cage. Pretty good start to the fight with Evangelista getting dropped 3 times but kept getting up. Not saying he has a great chin, it's more that he has great resiliancy and heart. Then Evangelista ends dropping Caudillo towards the end of the round saving this from being a 10-8 for Caudillo. Oh, Caudillo has some crap tattoo's on his back

I tried to pick up Michelle Waterson at a club here in Albuquerque once. I was hammered and had no idea who she was. It was at this meathead club called The Library where everyone dresses in Affliction yet they have a strict no t-shirt dress code. Go figure. I didn't want to go, but I got dragged there since my friends went and saw a band with me that I really wanted to see. I owed them.

She told me she was an MMA fighter and we chatted about that for awhile. I didn't think anything of it. I just thought MMA was a flavor of the month thing and this is something all the females in this particular club would be saying. Either they're an MMA fighter or their boyfriends train UFC. She was gorgeous and I just wanted to grind up on her. Last thing I wanted to do was turn into a real life MMA message board poster and test her for her TUF n00bness before eventually convincing myself her MMA cred wasn't up to my standards when in reality I was just trying to look on the brightside that I had absolutely NO shot with this woman. I was drunk and horny and I thought I was holding her interest.

She eventually moved on and I eventually passed out on a pleather couch in the back of the club that smelled like piss and cherry chapstick and had to be carried out by my friends who I found out also tried to pick up on the karate hottie at some point during that night. She was the hot Asian with the banging bod.

It wasn't until much later that I saw her in an event and found out who she was.

I tried to pick up Michelle Waterson at a club here in Albuquerque once. I was hammered and had no idea who she was. It was at this meathead club called The Library where everyone dresses in Affliction yet they have a strict no t-shirt dress code. Go figure. I didn't want to go, but I got dragged there since my friends went and saw a band with me that I really wanted to see. I owed them.

She told me she was an MMA fighter and we chatted about that for awhile. I didn't think anything of it. I just thought MMA was a flavor of the month thing and this is something all the females in this particular club would be saying. Either they're an MMA fighter or their boyfriends train UFC. She was gorgeous and I just wanted to grind up on her. Last thing I wanted to do was turn into a real life MMA message board poster and test her for her TUF n00bness before eventually convincing myself her MMA cred wasn't up to my standards when in reality I was just trying to look on the brightside that I had absolutely NO shot with this woman. I was drunk and horny and I thought I was holding her interest.

She eventually moved on and I eventually passed out on a pleather couch in the back of the club that smelled like piss and cherry chapstick and had to be carried out by my friends who I found out also tried to pick up on the karate hottie at some point during that night. She was the hot Asian with the banging bod.

It wasn't until much later that I saw her in an event and found out who she was.

In other news, our bwoy Sauli Heilimö just won the 84kg/185lbs Shooto European Championship belt via armbar.

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this place used to be tight...a family of like-minded posters...with splashed of midgets, goatse bombs, raspberry get-togethers, lots of pron, and conversations that went on and on...what no more things to talk about? It wasn't that there was alot to say then either...but people were bored..and creative.

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"Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo

"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware." - Henry Miller (reps to Tauv)
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. - Mark Twain

M-1 Challenge is going to be at the Emerald Queen in a couple of days and I just found out about it from a commercial....which is pretty much Fedor in a still photo punching the screen with a voice over.

Team Russia vs. Team Asia

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anybody else a little annoyed with Bas Rutten? Funny guy at times, but at the same time....too much

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"It won't last. Brothers and sisters are natural enemies like Englishmen and Scots, or Welshmen and Scots, or Japanese and Scots, or Scots and other Scots. Damn Scots! They ruined Scotland!" - Groundskeeper Willie

anybody else a little annoyed with Bas Rutten? Funny guy at times, but at the same time....too much

Yes, you are spot on. I used to actually defend Bas back when him and Mauro did Pride shows and in the IFL, I got to meet him the one show we covered in Florida. However, {Steven A. Smith style} his training of Kimbo turned him into a used car salesman. Everybody that I watched Pride or anything with him involved hated him. I'll admit he tries to come off as some grappling expert sometimes but he has to analyze the fight.

He has taken his act too far for fans to take him serious. His ability as a coach/trainer ? I don't question that but his MMA opinions I do, ever since Kimbo showed up at his doorstep. He started believing his own bullshit.

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"From my point of view, a monkey wrote this script with his penis!" - Rifftrax

"It won't last. Brothers and sisters are natural enemies like Englishmen and Scots, or Welshmen and Scots, or Japanese and Scots, or Scots and other Scots. Damn Scots! They ruined Scotland!" - Groundskeeper Willie